NYC attack: Groups blast Trump’s Guantanamo comments
7 years, 5 months ago

NYC attack: Groups blast Trump’s Guantanamo comments

Al Jazeera  

Rights groups say Trump’s remarks about potentially sending the suspect to Guantanamo would set a ‘dangerous precedent’. Rights groups have blasted right-wing US President Donald Trump’s declaration that he may send the suspect of a deadly attack in Manhattan to the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba. ‘Dangerous precedent’ Ibrahim Hooper, the national communications director at the Council on American Islamic Relations, said sending the suspect to Guantanamo would “be on its face unconstitutional”. “Racism and Islamophobia will never result in sound, legal or effective counterterrorism policy.” The American Civil Liberties Union, another rights organisation, also condemned Trump’s rush to impose sweeping measures in the wake of the attack. “Sending Saipov to Guantanamo or treating him as an ‘enemy combatant’ would violate due process and the rule of law,” Anthony D Romero, executor director of the ACLU, said in a statement on Wednesday.

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